Talk:Kate Seredy

Dates
What is this 7th of March? Alternative birth daye, or date of death? Rich  Farmbrough 12:00, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Find-A-Grave lists her birth date as of 1899 instead of 1896. Lincher 13:28, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Birth date is Nov. 10, 1896, Budapest. Death        Mar.  7, 1975, Middletown, NY —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gyirmot (talk • contribs)

Sources for birth date
Making this into a separate section, so that it makes sense to keep adding

Evidence for 1896:
 * nationmaster.com (citing "something about the author", a reference work)
 * shelfari.com
 * librarything.com
 * lifeblob.com (citing "freebase", whatever that is)

Evidence for 1899:
 * bookrags.com
 * Find-A-Grave
 * everything2.org, quoting silvrdal and USM
 * semicolonblog.com
 * silvrdal personal page
 * A University of Southern Mississippi research page (this looks checkable)

Back to talk
Better get a WP:RS before changing again... --Alvestrand (talk) 05:05, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi there ; I have found other sources for 1899 (1, 2, etc. + 1899 in literature in WP) but not so reliable than the "something about the author", indeed.
 * Sorry for the mistake ; I will correct the correlated pages. --Frencheana (talk) 10:05, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The first source gives as its sources http://www.oklahoma.net/~silvrdal/seredy.html and

http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/seredy.htm#bio, as well as www.amazon.com. Adding.. I suspect that there's probably 1 source for each of the dates, and the others are citing the information without necessarily giving sources.... --Alvestrand (talk) 22:46, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Early work
As writer: We imply but don't say that The Good Master (Viking, 1935) was her first publication.

As illustrator: We say, "After the war she illustrated several books in Hungary.[1]:300 [new paragraph] In 1922 Seredy moved from Budapest to the United States. She studied English language, working as an illustrator and artist to support herself, while preparing to illustrate children's books. From 1933 to 1934 ..." —working as an illustrator of what? Books published in Europe, perhaps Hungary? US magazines or newspapers? US books for adults?

For what it's worth the US Library of Congress Online Catalog search for Seredy, Kate (via LCCN) returns only one 1934 and one 1935 record for Seredy as illustrator; books published in the US certainly and maybe prior to The Good Master. Here are the three 1934–35 records: —test Viking Children's Books at EN.wikipedia Listed here in order of their LC control numbers, which begin with 34, 35, and 35. I don't know when the numbers were assigned or what their sequence represents.
 * The prince commands ... (NY: D. Appleton-Century, 1934), by Andre Norton
 * The good master (NY: Viking Children's Books, 1935), text and illus. by Seredy; editor May Massee
 * The selfish giant and other stories (Phila: David McKay Publications, 1935), selected by Wilhelmina Harper

Andre Norton wrote a helluvalot of books and stories published from 1934 to 2005 (Andre Norton bibliography). The book illustrated by Seredy was Norton's first, The Prince Commands, being sundry adventures of Michael Karl, sometime crown prince & pretender to the throne of Morvania. Publisher Appleton-Century was created by 1933 merger. I have seen D.Appleton&Company identified as Norton's first publisher. That may be a simple mistake or Norton (or even both Norton and Seredy) may have arranged with D.Appleton before the merger.

--P64 (talk) 20:59, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

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Scan of Seredy illustrations?
Greetings. I have a collection of Kate Seredy books, some written by others and illustrated by her and others both written and illustrated by Seredy herself. Since she was the copyright holder of her books, would it be legal for me to scan a few illustrations from her own books to upload here as samples of her work? She was very talented; it would be wonderful to show that aspect. Thank you for your help, Wordreader (talk) 00:43, 4 September 2021 (UTC)


 * ADDENDUM - One book is autographed, reputedly by her. Would that signature be of interest with that caveat? Again, thanks, Wordreader (talk) 00:45, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Country category changed?
Query: Does anyone know why WP member Skyeriser [] changed Seredy's categorization from Hungarian to American in the lede? She was born in Hungary and lived there into her adulthood as an illustrator before coming to the USA. I know countries of origin can sometimes be contentious here in Wikiberg, but she really was of Hungarian origin and her books were even set in Hungary.

Thank you for your time, Wordreader (talk) 05:38, 27 July 2023 (UTC)